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We are hoping to add an option for partial credit with no penalty.  This way students are not penalized for marking a wrong answer AND not marking a correct answer.    

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Hi, I keep getting an error message when I try to respond to a Canvas email while using my Outlook email account.  Canvas keeps asking me to create a Confirmed Communication Channel.Any insights are appreciated.- David

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Over the past two weeks, several of my students have come to me showing me how when they try to go to our course in Canvas, they end up with a screen saying "Access Denied."  I have had them shutdown their computer and completely restart, I've checke...

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I understand that SpeedGrader uses a 2 steps process, and can autosave entered data for a short period of time. However, too often, in particular when working with new markers who worry about posting the marks too early, all the marked data can be lo...

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Nothing is showing up on my To Do list in card view? I've tried refreshing or going into list view, but nothing is fixing it. It's been a problem for the past four days, and it's making it hard to keep track of what assignments I have due.Thanks!

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In Canvas, I recently copied over a course from another course. I hit the edit button on a page in the newly created course to edit content (see screenshot #1 in attachment) and when I click into the edit area the content disappears except for the pa...

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Why is the Syllabus button inactive on the Canvas Course homepage? I have used Canvas for many years at my institution.   Courses are created every semester.   The Syllabus button has always been a boilerplate button on the home page, along with offi...

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I am registered for a class that was published 9-12-25. It isn't showing up on my dashboard, and when I go to all courses, it shows that it's published, but the course name is not showing as a hyperlink for me to open it. I did get an email from my i...

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how do i make a quiz available for students to take and how do they submit?

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Greetings,I recently created rubrics in the Canvas LMS and I would like to take screenshots of them to include in my professional web portfolio. However, when I attempt to screenshot a rubric the screen blacks out. Now I'm not sure how to share these...

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Just recently, my to-do list has been reduced from displaying all my courses' work until the end of the semester, to only displaying one or two assignments. Is there any way I could revert my to-do list to go back to what it was before? 

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Is there a way to have the rubric score automatically added to the grade score or do I have to type it in each time?

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My students would like to be able to review their responses to quiz prompts to identify correct answers. They would also like to retake the quizzes for mastery.

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I'm trying to find the most efficient way to make changes to multiple pages and the best way so far is to add a CSS code to the original HTML. However it gets stripped out when I preview page. Is there a way to add the CSS code without issues occurin...

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If a new teacher has existing teachers in the building send/share classes and lessons will the new teacher change the existing modules/assignments/due dates if they edit them for their classes. We used this method to Import them:How do I copy content...

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How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

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We have installed the new Microsoft Education (LTI). In the Admin Settings is the option "Hide Admin settings for all users" is fade out. I can't find any artikel of documentation how I can enable this option. We don't want the users to change the se...

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Why are some green published indicators a lighter shade of green?

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In a classic quiz, I want the ability to have a specific number of each question type included (random questions pulled from several banks so that all question types appear in the quiz). The main reason is that I want to ensure essay questions are al...

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I am a student. The Canvas to-do list is blank on desktop, only showing the phrase "Nothing for now". This happens across multiple web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Edge). However, the to-do lists for each individual class are working correctly and ...

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Searching for assignments and videos for this course… Lesson one.Dont know how to find the video by Bill Patterson  and the Reading assignment by Richard Alan Fun and Andreas J. Kostenbuger

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Good morning all,   I am working with one of our teachers in her Spanish classes and we are trying to get it set so students are able to record audio as a submission type on a canvas quiz.   The teacher is creating her quiz and creating each question...

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Is there scope to be able to make pages into a more systemic way to store and locate information? At the teacher level, a systemic file management system would be good (similar to files). I'm not if it needs to be its own thing or have the ability to...

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The course announcements are located at the top of my homepage. I'm attaching a screenshot. How can I rearrange the page and move them to the bottom? Thank you.

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I have numerous courses in the unpublished list of my dashboard.  How do I delete a course from the list?

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Hi! I've submitted a jpg photo to be used for my canvas account, but it renders as an empty html image tag. When I try to go to the original file source hosted by canvas everything looks okay, so I'm wondering why it won't display on any other page. 

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When copying an assignment to another class within the same calendar year, the list of courses to choose from includes old, unpublished classes. This makes copying an assignment tedious as you have to look through so many old classes to find the curr...

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How do i add my TAs to my classes

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